The Realm of Extreme Martial Arts.
The original Martial King, stripped of his power, sat despondently atop a high mountain, gazing at his lost world with sorrow in his eyes.
"Gone... everything is gone. This king will never again glimpse the peak of martial arts in this lifetime!"
After Ye Ling had driven away the Singer and the Black Knight, the Realm of Extreme Martial Arts returned to peace. The disheartened original Martial King found this place, preparing to end his days here.
"Ye Ling! If I see you here, I will..."
"Original Martial King!"
Suddenly, Ye Ling's voice echoed in the original Martial King's mind, startling him so much that he nearly fell off the cliff!
"Ye Ling?"
The original Martial King scrambled to his feet from the cliff's edge, scanning his surroundings, and asked with a look of horror, "Didn't you leave with 'them'? Why are you back? To mock me?"
"There's no time to explain! I need your help now. How do you create that black hole leading outside the Primordial Chaos?"
"You stole my power, turned me into a cripple, and now you want me to help you? No way!" The original Martial King refused Ye Ling without a second thought, his refusal absolute!
"Help me this once, and I will help you reshape your origin. While I can't restore you to your peak, I can let you start from the level of a supreme expert and pursue martial arts anew. Furthermore, I can give you the Black Knight's living armor!"
"The array to activate the black hole is at the core of the Realm of Extreme Martial Arts. You can directly use spiritual energy to activate the core array to open the black hole."
The original Martial King spoke quickly, seemingly having forgotten his stern words from moments before.
"However, the other side of the black hole connects to a place of great peril outside the Primordial Chaos. Those who enter all die. Why are you suddenly going in? Seeking trouble?"
After telling Ye Ling how to open the black hole, the original Martial King inquired further.
"I'm not going in. Your black hole has another purpose! Find a place to hide for a while. The Realm of Extreme Martial Arts might be in for some trouble!"
With that, Ye Ling's voice fell silent.
Before the original Martial King could fully grasp what was happening, he saw a multitude of black obelisks appear in the sky, and the Singer's song began to resound again.
"Those two guys aren't dead yet?"
Seeing the power of the Black Knight and the Singer, the original Martial King was greatly alarmed and immediately found a place to hide.
Although he had lost all his power and posed no threat to the watchers, he was still a wanted man.
If he were discovered by the Black Knight and the Singer, his fate would be dire!
After obtaining the method to open the black hole from the original Martial King, Ye Ling paid no further attention to him. He instantly teleported to the core of the Realm of Extreme Martial Arts and activated the black hole with the utmost speed!
Boom!!!
The black hole leading outside the Primordial Chaos reopened, and this time... Ye Ling plunged into it without hesitation!
Within the black hole, it was pitch black, filled with destructive power everywhere.
And at the deepest part of the black hole, Ye Ling could see a darkness even more profound than the surrounding blackness, emanating an extremely terrifying aura.
Even in his current state, Ye Ling felt a fatal threat from there.
"That is outside the Primordial Chaos..."
Ye Ling looked at the blackness at the deepest part of the black hole, swallowed, and slowly moved closer.
After Ye Ling entered the black hole, the Singer's song and the Black Knight's black obelisks vanished. They seemed to be wary of something and did not rashly attack into the black hole.
"This original Martial King is too devious, trying to lure me into such a hellish place. Fortunately, I didn't fall for it! Should I hold back some of the power I'll give him later?"
Ye Ling muttered to himself, his heart growing more alarmed the closer he got to the blackness at the deepest part of the black hole.
When Ye Ling was a certain distance from the blackness at the deepest part of the black hole, his reason told him that he absolutely must not go any closer!
Ye Ling did not continue to court death by moving forward. He stopped and attempted to summon the Source Text within the black hole.
"As expected, this black hole is the boundary between the Primordial Chaos and the outside world. The consumption of using the Source Text here has already increased. I must use runes."
Sensing that continuing to use the Source Text would be too taxing, Ye Ling immediately withdrew it and instead condensed runes, setting up an array in the black hole.
"Next, I need to collect the power of the Singer and the Black Knight."
Ye Ling hid the rune array and immediately exited the black hole, returning to the Realm of Extreme Martial Arts.
The moment Ye Ling emerged from the black hole, the Singer and the Black Knight, who had been growing impatient, eagerly launched an attack on Ye Ling, simultaneously attempting to seal the black hole and prevent Ye Ling from entering.
This time, Ye Ling did not dodge. Instead, he chose to take a direct hit from the Singer and the Black Knight, absorbing fragments of the Singer's song and pieces of the Black Knight's black obelisks into his body.
The Singer and the Black Knight were also surprised that their attacks had hit Ye Ling. They both froze for a moment, thinking they were hallucinating.
After collecting the attacks from the Singer and the Black Knight, Ye Ling endured the pain and broke through their blockade, returning to the black hole. He then sent the fragments of the Singer's song and the pieces of the Black Knight's black obelisks into the rune array he had constructed.
"Outside the Primordial Chaos, there is no concept of time and space, only a void. If that's the case... no matter where the Singer and the Black Knight are hiding outside the Primordial Chaos, theoretically... as long as I obtain their information, I can strike them from here!"
Ye Ling used runes to quickly analyze the powers of the Singer and the Black Knight. He then activated the rune array, imbued the powers of the Singer and the Black Knight with life, and sent them towards the blackness at the deepest part of the black hole.
"Go! Go find your masters!"
Ye Ling stared intently at the powers of the Singer and the Black Knight. The moment they entered the blackness at the deepest part of the black hole, that originally calm black mass suddenly sprouted countless spikes, piercing the powers of the Singer and the Black Knight!
In an instant, the powers of the Singer and the Black Knight were torn into pieces and scattered!
However, because Ye Ling had sent in fragments of song and obelisk pieces, even after being pierced, a small portion of their power successfully merged with the darkness and vanished into the void!
"Success!"
Seeing that the fragments of the Singer's song and the Black Knight's obelisks had successfully reached outside the Primordial Chaos, Ye Ling activated his rune array again.
The fragments of song and obelisk pieces sent out by Ye Ling quickly found the Singer and the Black Knight in the void.
And within Ye Ling's rune array, projections of the Singer and the Black Knight appeared!
"Finally, I've got you!"
Seeing the projections of the Singer and the Black Knight in the rune array, Ye Ling's eyes gleamed: "You thought you could escape me by hiding outside the Primordial Chaos?"
As Ye Ling spoke, the Ink Domain... suddenly unfolded within the black hole!